Tag Archives: Wordpress

Installing Wordpress Child Themes and Customizing the Byty Theme

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Since I’ve launched by first Wordpress Child Theme based on Thematic I thought writing about how you can make small changes to the theme and put your own graphical logo, add css for other plugins, basically create a customized version of it.
This post is divided in 4 different parts, particularly:

Installing Wordpress Child Themes
Adding your [...]

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Byty the Free Child Theme - Built on Thematic

        
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This is my first Free to Download Child Theme. It was built for a friend of mine and we decided to release it for free in hope of some extra publicity .

In order to install it you have to download the Thematic Theme (from which this child theme inherits [...]

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Front-end interface portability between CMS - the next BIG step in web-development?

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I want to talk in this post about front-end interface that could be used without any modifications (or just with basic configuration) between different Content Management Systems (Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Expression Engine and a million more) and how this could help the developer. I know it sounds far fetch but bare with me [...]

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WP Greet Box, my Design and Thematic - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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First of all the reason: most of my trafic comes from StumbleUpon. With that in mind I decided that it would be a really good way to promote my blog by nicely asking visitors that came from Stumble to give me a thumb up if they like the article (the all “ask and [...]

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Use Wordpress as a CMS with Thematic - Part2

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In Part 1 of the tutorial we’ve discussed about:

Installing Wordpress
Creating a Child Theme
Implementing out blog design
Css tricks
The functions.php file
Setting up Wordpress and adding pages.

Now we take over from where we left and make the web-site fully functional. In order to do that we’ll use a few plugins to help us create a nice, [...]

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Use Wordpress as a CMS with Thematic Theme- Part1

This will be a two parts tutorial in which will use Wordpress as a CMS with the Thematic Wordpress Theme Framework.
Requirements:

Wordpress
Thematic Theme framework
A ready made layout design
Coffee ( preferably hot with cream and no sugar)

We all know how powerful Wordpress can be. A lot of people have done this before me, building static websites on [...]

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Before I go on vacation, more Thematic madness!

I’ve mentioned in my previous post about Thematic that I want to implement a static web-page using Wordpress and Thematic as a CMS, so here’s a sneakĀ  peek: www.cozmoslabs.com/projects/kraft2 . It doesn’t have a lot of content yet, I still have to install a form builder, a photo gallery, create some more pages and perhaps [...]

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10 design tips for your custom wordpress theme built with thematic

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I’m quite happy with the way my custom weblog theme design turned out. There is still room for improvement but for now things will stay like this. I didn’t make huge changes from the base Thematic Theme, but it dose look different and somewhat close to my personality, and this was [...]

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